The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 168

He bought a dozen copper lamps, put them into a basket, and went to the palace, crying: “New lamps for old!” followed by a jeering crowd.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: buy, put, go, cry, follow · To what, where: dozen copper lamps, people, basket, palace, New lamps

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dozen	det
4	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lamps	nummod
5	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lamps	compound
6	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bought	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 basket	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 basket	det
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bought	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crying	punct
20	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 went	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 lamps	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 lamps	punct
23	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lamps	amod
24	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 crying	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 old	case
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lamps	amod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 old	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 old	punct
29	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lamps	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 crowd	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 crowd	det
32	jeering	jeering	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crowd	compound
33	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 followed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Aladdin	dozen copper lamps			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
2	put	infinitive	Aladdin not said here	people	a basket		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
3	go	past	Aladdin not said here		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
4	cry speech: express	gerund	Aladdin not said here	New lamps			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Topic
5	follow	participle		New lamps not said here		by a jeering crowd	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by crowd=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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